Chuck McCann

Yeah, there was a cool author.

Starring James Spader and other people, Joanne Wally, Jason Rhubarge, Charlotte Lewis, Michael Warren, Piper Laurie, Michael Parks, Chuck McCann, who was the guy that was the puppet master on that episode of On the Air.

Oh, yeah.

I couldn't find his fucking name.

So I got to talk to Will Jordan, who was friends with Sammy.

Chuck McCann, a kid show host, all the TV shows and movies and all, he was one of Sammy's, uh, buddies.

So I started...

Oh, and King Broder, uh, Sammy's manager- Who, when I spoke to him, he was in his 90s and still working out of, uh, a strip mall in Long Island someplace, you know? And he's like, "Why are you writing a book about Sammy? Why don't you write a book about me? I have a story." And he did, because he's one of the only people in the Sammy Petrillo universe who became very successful because he had Eddie, um, Eddie Murphy under contract.

I don't know.

Chuck McCann.

Oh, it was Chuck McCann.

Why did I think he did him on one of the other shows? Did he? Was he on the Hanna-Barbera ones?

Probably.

Hey, guys.

Remember the old day? Who was it? Chuck McCann.

Hey, guy.

He was a fellow in the...

Yeah.

I saw Chuck McCann do five hours.

Oh, my God.

It wasn't...

You know, 9 p.m., screening of The Projectionist.

No, the screening started at 2 in the morning.

Chuck McCann introduced it.

For five hours.

Patti Maloney as Tinkerbell Before her Hollywood career, Maloney performed with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey and other carnival circus productions.

At 3'11", Maloney played Honk on Sid Mardi Gras's Far Out Space Nuts in 1975 alongside Bob Denver and Chuck McCann.

She appeared in nine episodes.

And there is another Gilligan's Isle connection, and let's not forget Jim Backus from Angels on Ice.